Jan is highly respected as a workplace strategist and frequently writes and speaks about workplace topics. She has spent her career strengthening the correlations between business strategies and the planning, design and management of work environments.

Jan leads a key element of Allsteel | Gunlocke's research, mining science for insights into the effectiveness of work environments. She has contributed to the emerging field of workplace strategy in the U.S. and abroad through important works in the field's body of knowledge and by shaping and teaching the field's professional competencies. 

Jan is an interior designer by trade and, former chair of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation and teaches the three MCR.w classes for CoreNet Global